love that hat. I just discovered your channel about 20 minutes ago and I subscribed about 15 minutes ago. what a beautiful family you have. any man that can hunt ,fish, trap ,sew, sing ,play the banjo, guitar ,piano and probably other hidden talents is a great man. sure would like to see some videos on how you do your tanning.
Man that hat turned out fantastic , Love it !! The hat almost matches your beard . Your shirt looks great too ! Very impressive work and an enjoyable video from the leather work to the great music. This is the 1st video of yours I've seen but I'll definitely be watching your others. Thanks for sharing your leather work knowledge with us all. ;) Cheers
👍🏼 That is a Nice Looking Hat for sure👍🏼 Man I like the Elkskin Shirt too. I had a rough leather pullover jacket i bought in W.Germany back in 1977,,but gave it away when I got oversized. Sad thing is I gave away every whitetail deer skin i had,,,when i was married. Gloom Despair and Agony on Me😭lol.
@@MountainMenOutdoors I just Retired and My Buddy that I been hunting with forever Passed Away and now that land is not available to me. ai gave the Hides to some Amish so I know they was used. Heck,,I seriously considered selling my 12guage Mossberg500 deer gun,,,but I'm gonna reBlue the Slug Barrel first😊 I kind of like the way it looks just standin there by the door.
Turned out beautiful! (Though it does look kinda warm for summertime!) Looks easy to make actually! I am looking to make some fur hats! Good instructional. Thank you for posting.
Thanks for the comment, I appreciate you watching. It’s definitely too hot for summer. It does feel nice this fall though. I hope your hats turn out great.
Good stuff ... I want to make a coyote Hat to go with my buckskin suit, which this is the style I had in mind. I would of thought that you could of pushed your needle right through fox skin, but maybe not ? Thanks.
@@MountainMenOutdoors brain tanned deer buckskin sews well, because it opens up the poors, where chemically tanned closes them. But it would probably depend on how soft your skin was worked.
I’d say it’s really just your color preference, however a with coyote fur you would definitely have more material to work with. Coyote fur may be a little thicker fur too.
Im so glad i found this, this is great and btw about the holes u put in the hide , did u use a limited amount of holes or just put how many wherever too attacth the top part
No problem, scrape and remove all the meat and fat from the freshly skinned hide then you can tack it to a board and let it dry and it will be fine. Then you can store it anywhere once it’s dried.
Do you know how to make fur pompoms? I knit a lot of hats :) I know making pompoms is not a very mountain man type skill, but I can’t find any info out there on it at all. We have all manner of critters attacking our hens, and I’d rather not waste the pelts. Any info appreciated !
We use a tanning solution we make out of egg yolks and neats foot oil which is as close to a brain tan as you can get. This makes really nice soft white leather. It takes a lot of working and stretching as it dries and it’s not as messy as brain tanning. Thanks for watching.
Question for you-- how would you do it if you want it to be fur on both the inside and outside of it? I am going to use these techniques to make my very own Conan The Barbarian He-Man underwear and need to have fur both inside and out.
Hi, Just a small invention I made and I'd really would like to share with you is how to make the best needles for stiching light leather like sheep or any of these small predators. First of all, go to the pharmacy and get the biggest hollow needle they have, I know, they are going to think you are crazy and probably won't understand what you need immediately, but after explaining a bit they will get behind your idea and what you need. Just say you need a sharp needle that doesn't stretch the hide open but makes a small cut, it's the same what others use to pierce ears and noses. Get a few of these you'll waste the first ones for sure. Then cut away the plastic with an angle grinder so you get a tip that is maybe 1 to 1,5 inches long, secure it, tip down, between two wooden pieces in a swivel vise and get it glowing uning a lighter or a small blow torch. Then you take your needle, which you have put in a power drill, tip pointing out, and press it gently but fast into the hollow back side of the, still very hot, needle. This is a process of two or three seconds and you have to stop drilling immediately once you have put it as far as it feels ok, otherwise you will twist off the hollow needle. The hollow needle will be stretched a bit and once the hot metal shrinks, it will hold the needle you need to put your yarn though absolutely secured. After that you will never have to prepare small holes to be abled to make something out of hide. Best wishes and I hope I can help out a bit, if you need more information on these needles, just let me know. By the way, your videos are awesome, big support from Germany!
Hi! Thanks for this video! I’m wondering if the fur for the band is pointing upward or downward? Or sideways? Also, I watched your coon hat video-is there a reason why for the fox hat you did one single band but for the coon you did 3 bands?
Thanks for watching! The Fox hat, the fur is sideways. I done this because a Fox has a much thicker fur and more consistent color than a raccoon especially this particular fox because it was a winter Fox. A winter harvested fur generally has a thicker fur and thicker skin. That’s also why I was able to make it with a single band instead of 3 pieces like the coon hat. Now, the coon hat, the fur was from a fall raccoon and his fur hadn’t gotten really thick yet. A raccoon has a wider range of colors in the different parts of the fur so for that hat in order to match color schemes I done the band in 3 parts and the hair on the front was pointing upwards to hide the seams on the top, the side pieces the hair was pointing towards the back also to hide seams and match colors of the fur the best I could. Hope this helps! Thanks for watching.
@@MountainMenOutdoors ok, cool. I had a fox I was going to mount but the head fell off and I decided to make a hat with it. Yours turned out great! Also you said the around measurements was 23 inches, which is the same as me, but what was the width of that band of fur? Also the top round piece measurements?
I know I'm late but I made mine and it fits perfectly. Made it out of bunny 🎉
Great video, will make one myself thank you 😊
That looks great, especially with your magnificent beard.
Thanks man, I appreciate that. I was hoping it would match my beard pretty good!
love that hat. I just discovered your channel about 20 minutes ago and I subscribed about 15 minutes ago. what a beautiful family you have. any man that can hunt ,fish, trap ,sew, sing ,play the banjo, guitar ,piano and probably other hidden talents is a great man. sure would like to see some videos on how you do your tanning.
Thanks I appreciate that! I got some hides in the freezer right now I hope to start tanning when the weather breaks a little bit a make a few videos
Man that hat turned out fantastic , Love it !! The hat almost matches your beard . Your shirt looks great too ! Very impressive work and an enjoyable video from the leather work to the great music. This is the 1st video of yours I've seen but I'll definitely be watching your others. Thanks for sharing your leather work knowledge with us all. ;) Cheers
Thanks buddy! I appreciate that and thanks for watching
Great job looks professionally made 😊
Thank you! I appreciate you watching.
Thank you very much indeed, Stay up 👍🏻
👍🏼 That is a Nice Looking Hat for sure👍🏼 Man I like the Elkskin Shirt too. I had a rough leather pullover jacket i bought in W.Germany back in 1977,,but gave it away when I got oversized. Sad thing is I gave away every whitetail deer skin i had,,,when i was married. Gloom Despair and Agony on Me😭lol.
Oh man! Maybe you can round up more eventually
@@MountainMenOutdoors I just Retired and My Buddy that I been hunting with forever Passed Away and now that land is not available to me. ai gave the Hides to some Amish so I know they was used. Heck,,I seriously considered selling my 12guage Mossberg500 deer gun,,,but I'm gonna reBlue the Slug Barrel first😊 I kind of like the way it looks just standin there by the door.
Oh man, I hate that about your friend.
You stay safe as well my friend
Wow excellent sir excellent thanks cool i love that hat 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
You have done a great job I m going to try to make me a coon hat also ..The hat looks nioce .nice video
Thanks I appreciate it! I hope your hat turns out great!
Awesome, thank you for sharing this.
Thanks for watching!
Men you rock! Cool! With the red beard
Thank you! I appreciate you watching
That’s one fine looking hat
Thank you buddy!
How excellent!
Turned out beautiful! (Though it does look kinda warm for summertime!) Looks easy to make actually! I am looking to make some fur hats! Good instructional. Thank you for posting.
Thanks for the comment, I appreciate you watching. It’s definitely too hot for summer. It does feel nice this fall though. I hope your hats turn out great.
Sir you do a excellent jod it takes back the old days 😊😊😊❤ god bless
Thank you very much, I appreciate it
Thanks on the hat also. I have a Bobcat skin I want to use for the hat.
That would be awesome! A bobcat makes a real nice hat
Awesome hat!!!
Thanks!
Great video. The hat turned out very nice. I have several coyote and fox hides that I'm trying to decide what to do with and this is a good idea.
Thanks for watching! I’ve got a special coyote hide from one I killed the other day that’s fixing to be another hat before to long.
@@MountainMenOutdoors Great! I can’t wait to see it.
Looks good, great vid.
Thanks!
nice job!
Thanks!
Man, thats pretty awesome. Great craftsmanship..
Thanks bud I appreciate that!
Great job 🤙🏾
Thanks
Pretty cool man
Thanks
I love it! Totally gonna be makin’ myself one of these over thanksgiving!!
Heck yeah! Thanks for watching
Good stuff man!! I really enjoy the leather working videos. Keep em coming
Thanks man, I appreciate it! Will do for sure! Hope to make pants and moccasins soon.
@@MountainMenOutdoors can't wait for pants and moccasins!
I've made a few fur hats and you did a fine job!!!
Thanks! I appreciate it
Looks great!!!
Thanks! I appreciate it
Bro, pure manliness 👌🏻🇺🇲
Look into a fur bonus sew machine you'll be very impressed with one
Awesome
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Wow that looks cool 😊😊😊😊😊
thats a nice hat!
Thanks I appreciate it!
Great!!!!
Thanks
This is the first video of yours I've seen. Pretty handy work. I'm surprised you don't have a lot more subscribers
Thanks, I’m hoping I’ll get there some day. I appreciate the comment
@@MountainMenOutdoors I shared the same opinion...
Real nice,
Thanks I appreciate it
@@MountainMenOutdoors no problem man, everything on your channel is so perfect because it’s things I’d like to do, just don’t have the time.
@@wyattbrewster3676 that means a lot buddy
Awesome video
Thank you!
That looks absolutely amazing! Gonna make myself one 🙂
Thanks I appreciate it! Thanks for watching and I hope yours turns out great!
Coming from a old man. Got to teach me how to make a coon skin cap. I might teach you something.lol
Good stuff ... I want to make a coyote Hat to go with my buckskin suit, which this is the style I had in mind. I would of thought that you could of pushed your needle right through fox skin, but maybe not ? Thanks.
You can in the thinner places but can’t on some of the thicker parts so I use an awl to keep things uniform
@@MountainMenOutdoors OK thanks .. Wonder if a brain tanned skin would be easier to sew through.
Possibly, I think if it’s thick it would still be tough
@@MountainMenOutdoors brain tanned deer buckskin sews well, because it opens up the poors, where chemically tanned closes them. But it would probably depend on how soft your skin was worked.
Nice
Thanks! I appreciate you watching
Awsome video bud
Thanks buddy
Perfect
if you wet stretch the hide you can almost double your material
you got yourself a sub
I appreciate it
Great content👍👍
Thanks for watching, I appreciate it!
Which is better fox fur or coyote I want it to put on my parka as a trim and also in the hood and collar or the parka.
I’d say it’s really just your color preference, however a with coyote fur you would definitely have more material to work with. Coyote fur may be a little thicker fur too.
Awesome video man! What kind of stitch did you use?
For this hat I used a whip stitch
It will match your beard! 👍
It does! I love it
Siiiick 🤙🤙
Thanks!
How many fox pelts do i need to make thus hat ... Just 1 ?
@@aaronwasham8816 I used 2 but you can get by with just one
Im so glad i found this, this is great and btw about the holes u put in the hide , did u use a limited amount of holes or just put how many wherever too attacth the top part
I just put holes spaced out about the same all the way on both pieces and it worked out when stitching. Thanks for watching
Could you do a video on how to stitch?
Yeah I’d be happy to work on that. Thanks for watching!
Thank you I'll keep an eye out for the video
Wow
I was thinking of buying a refrigerator & set it at 50 degrees just to store my furs in the summer, would that be a bad idea? Thanks
50 is a little warm, you’d be better off to flesh and dry them
@@MountainMenOutdoors I'm not sure what you mean? Sorry I'm new to the fur game
No problem, scrape and remove all the meat and fat from the freshly skinned hide then you can tack it to a board and let it dry and it will be fine. Then you can store it anywhere once it’s dried.
@@MountainMenOutdoors I forgot to mention it's a pre made hat,sorry
Oh ok
Do you know how to make fur pompoms? I knit a lot of hats :) I know making pompoms is not a very mountain man type skill, but I can’t find any info out there on it at all. We have all manner of critters attacking our hens, and I’d rather not waste the pelts. Any info appreciated !
I’ll have to say I have never thought about making pompous, lol. I’ll have to study on that and get back with you.
Did you tann this fox? if yess HOW DIDYOU GET IT SO WHITE AND SOFT?
We use a tanning solution we make out of egg yolks and neats foot oil which is as close to a brain tan as you can get. This makes really nice soft white leather. It takes a lot of working and stretching as it dries and it’s not as messy as brain tanning. Thanks for watching.
@@MountainMenOutdoors thank you!! Love from The Netherlands!
Question for you-- how would you do it if you want it to be fur on both the inside and outside of it? I am going to use these techniques to make my very own Conan The Barbarian He-Man underwear and need to have fur both inside and out.
I would probably use a good fabric cement and glue leather to leather
@@MountainMenOutdoors Good idea, I will give that a shot. My boys need to be cradled in fur!
Lol, I understand
Hi, Just a small invention I made and I'd really would like to share with you is how to make the best needles for stiching light leather like sheep or any of these small predators. First of all, go to the pharmacy and get the biggest hollow needle they have, I know, they are going to think you are crazy and probably won't understand what you need immediately, but after explaining a bit they will get behind your idea and what you need. Just say you need a sharp needle that doesn't stretch the hide open but makes a small cut, it's the same what others use to pierce ears and noses. Get a few of these you'll waste the first ones for sure. Then cut away the plastic with an angle grinder so you get a tip that is maybe 1 to 1,5 inches long, secure it, tip down, between two wooden pieces in a swivel vise and get it glowing uning a lighter or a small blow torch. Then you take your needle, which you have put in a power drill, tip pointing out, and press it gently but fast into the hollow back side of the, still very hot, needle. This is a process of two or three seconds and you have to stop drilling immediately once you have put it as far as it feels ok, otherwise you will twist off the hollow needle. The hollow needle will be stretched a bit and once the hot metal shrinks, it will hold the needle you need to put your yarn though absolutely secured. After that you will never have to prepare small holes to be abled to make something out of hide.
Best wishes and I hope I can help out a bit, if you need more information on these needles, just let me know.
By the way, your videos are awesome, big support from Germany!
This seems like a good idea, thanks for sharing
Hi! Thanks for this video! I’m wondering if the fur for the band is pointing upward or downward? Or sideways? Also, I watched your coon hat video-is there a reason why for the fox hat you did one single band but for the coon you did 3 bands?
Thanks for watching! The Fox hat, the fur is sideways. I done this because a Fox has a much thicker fur and more consistent color than a raccoon especially this particular fox because it was a winter Fox. A winter harvested fur generally has a thicker fur and thicker skin. That’s also why I was able to make it with a single band instead of 3 pieces like the coon hat. Now, the coon hat, the fur was from a fall raccoon and his fur hadn’t gotten really thick yet. A raccoon has a wider range of colors in the different parts of the fur so for that hat in order to match color schemes I done the band in 3 parts and the hair on the front was pointing upwards to hide the seams on the top, the side pieces the hair was pointing towards the back also to hide seams and match colors of the fur the best I could. Hope this helps! Thanks for watching.
very good video, do you know where I can buy one online? I live in Mexico, thanks 👍
I think you could order one from fntpost.com. I order some trapping supplies from them. You could maybe check their website. I know they sell fur hats
Did you use 1 fox pelt to make that or 2?
I could have used 1 but decided to use 2 so the direction of the fur laid in the direction that I wanted it to
@@MountainMenOutdoors ok, cool. I had a fox I was going to mount but the head fell off and I decided to make a hat with it. Yours turned out great! Also you said the around measurements was 23 inches, which is the same as me, but what was the width of that band of fur? Also the top round piece measurements?
My band width was 3 to 3 1/2 inches. On the top I drew out an oval shape on cardboard that measured 23 inches around. That seemed to work for me.
@@MountainMenOutdoors alright cool. Thank you so much!
@@samsteinback6923 if you have Facebook book look my group up and join if you’d like! I’d love to see how your hat turns out!
Won’t that fall apart with no liner
It hasn’t yet and it’s been over two years since I made this one and others I’ve made are much older and still fine
All you need now is some pants and shoes
It’s already in the works! Lol
@@MountainMenOutdoors can't wait to see how they turn out
I've always wanted a fox hat with real fur none of that fake crap
It looks cool. but it does not protect your ears and face. It's more like decoration.
are you married 😓
😊yeah
Awesome video
Thanks! I appreciate you watching